Lindon Dove's Forum 

Challenging the Status Quo

 

Born in wartime, Lindon remembers a Britain built on thriving industry. He remembers a population proud of British history and values, who were unashamed to fly the Union Jack and other union flags. Now he is ashamed. He decries the destruction of his country by successive governments prepared to sell their souls on the altars of globalism and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity.

 

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                                      BLOG CONTENT

The content consists of a series of articles and issues researched and presented by Lindon for the reader's information and discussion. He tries to address topics that the establishment would rather not be discussed or would prefer not to see the light of day.

Western democracy has never been so seriously attacked as it is today. Successive governments have become disassociated with the electorate. Party manifestos are nothing more than statements of what they think the public wants to hear, which they can discard when in power. 

Although the Freedom of Information Act gives access to public bodies to promote transparency, they are still adept at hiding the truth.  This blog seeks to uncover lies and misinformation. The articles and issues are listed below. Please visit the ones that interest you. Feel free to email your comments and observations to lindon_dove@hotmail.com.

Article 1. The reasons for the emergence of two-tier systems of policing and justice are presented for discussion.

Article 2. The failure of multiculturalism is considered through the grooming gang phenomenon and Islamic culture.

 Article 3. The cost of not speaking the English Language.

Article 1.

Two-Tier Policing & Justice

For over 150 years, the policing system in the UK has followed the principles laid down by Sir Robert Peel when setting up the Metropolitan Police Force. Policing is by public consent. Police officers are accountable to the public for their actions and behaviours, which must be conducted fairly and impartially. The principle of equality before the law is fundamental to this system.

In the 1960s, police were respected as part of the community. They were trusted. They were expected to appear when a 999 call was made and deal with the issue. The rumbustious teenager was most likely to be dealt with by a clip around the ear, admittedly by a male, six-foot policeman. The relaxation of height restrictions and the active recruitment of females and ethnic minorities may have altered the demographics of the police. Still, they do not in themselves explain why the public believes there is now a two-tier system of policing and justice in the UK.

Three primary factors provide strong empirical evidence that support this two-tier claim, alongside several questionable arrests, charges, and sentences. 

The first concerns the significant legal changes that have taken place over the last 50 years. The introduction of the  Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 sparked a series of other Equality Acts, culminating in the Equality Act 2010, which consolidated over 116 anti-discrimination laws into one single act. It created legal anarchy. It was its poor drafting, legal contradictions, and the creation of division by fostering a culture of "woke" policies and quotas that led to the inevitable consequences.

 A range of different minorities and opportunistic lawyers exerted pressure on Parliament, leading to legal loopholes and exploitation by aggrieved individuals and their legal representatives. A truly lucrative bandwagon emerged.

Instead of eliminating injustice, a platform was created for often unwarranted accusations: racist, sexist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamophobic. Weapons for the politically motivated to silence discussion, prevent dissent, and keep the bandwagon rolling. Moreover, their interpretation was subject to and dependent on the individual interpreter's political and cultural background. 

The number of complaints requiring the attention of the police soared, as they were diverted from addressing actual crimes to investigating non-crime hate incidents and discrimination claims. The shift in focus and priorities fostered a climate of fear and uncertainty within police forces. Political correctness and vested political interest prevented a thorough investigation into such horrors as grooming gangs and other crimes involving ethnic minorities. 

Sentencing in courts became biased against white defendants, a factor endorsed by the Sentencing Council in their sentencing guidelines. Woke, left-wing magistrates and judges awarded sentences that surpassed common sense. Baseless allegations of institutional racism forced police forces and courts to engage in perpetual introspection, wasting valuable police and court time and resources.

The second is the unparalleled rise in immigration, which is intensifying cultural tensions. The failure of multiculturalism led to the rapid emergence of inner-city ghettos, areas that the police are reluctant to enter and where they are unwelcome. Advocacy and pressure groups like Stonewall and Black Lives Matter infiltrated and spread through public institutions, including the police and the courts, leading to such nonsense as the police performing the Macarena in public and painting police vehicles in rainbow colours. 

This focus on political correctness compelled police forces to employ unproductive and costly Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Officers, resulting in substantial public spending on positions yielding minimal outcomes. West Yorkshire Police, for example,  allocates an annual budget of £1.3 million for these roles and the associated ineffective and unnecessary Training. Concentration in the force shifted from stopping criminality to being politically correct. The force has been emasculated and is incapable of proper policing.

The third relates to significant changes to the structure of police forces with inevitable negative consequences. Before the introduction of Police & Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in 2012, Chief Constables had direct authority over their force. They determined priorities and strategies. They recruited, trained, and promoted their staff. In short, police officers managed police officers. Often, police officers were recruited from former military personnel. An "esprit de corps" existed.

Establishing PCCs and directly elected Mayors fundamentally altered the power dynamics and politicised police operations. Given the authority to hire and fire the Chief Constable and set police priorities, forces became subordinate to far-left and woke ideologies. Career progression and promotions became reliant on political backing. Consequently, every day policing no longer followed the principles laid down by Sir Robert Peel but instead responded to the demands of and obedience to the politicians.

It is the politicians who have created and perpetuated a two-tier system of justice and policing. It is they who insist that police waste time pursuing non-crime hate incidents. It is they who are responsible for the courts showing increasing bias in sentencing. West Yorkshire Police, for example, received only a mediocre report from the HMRCFRS, highlighting  15 areas requiring further improvement. Its performance is secondary to political correctness. Not surprising given the far-left leanings of the Mayor and the very woke history of her preferred candidate for the post of West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. The recent decision in this force to temporarily block white applicants and the statistics showing a very high number of non-crime hate investigations are good indicators of political shaping. 

Political control of the police allows for the political control of the people, a sinister step towards totalitarianism and the cancellation of free speech. A mother can be can be gaoled for a tweet. An immigrant can serve a suspended sentence for rape. It is a long way back to equality before the law. It is a long way back to real policing.  

 

 

Article 2

From Pakistan to Grooming Gang

GB News continues to highlight and discuss the issue of the Pakistani grooming gangs. Labour continues to wish it would go away. GB News produced a map showing that the distribution of grooming Gangs covers the whole country.  Channel 4 showed a documentary, "Groomed: A National Scandal," where you can see and hear the testimony of child exploitation by Pakistani Grooming Gangs in the UK. The programme raised a heated debate in the UK parliament and a clamour for a public enquiry, exacerbated by Jesse Phillips' initial refusal to hold one. Grooming gang cases have occurred in over 50 UK towns. The current proposal for a National Inquiry has been virtually forced on the Labour Government. It is foundering following the departure of five of the victims who refuse to take part, while Jesse Phillips remains in post. 

The liberal elite advocate multiculturalism as a panacea for good race relations. It is an approach that presupposes different cultures will merge over time into mutually accepted values and ways of living. It has failed miserably. The naivety in this approach lies in the lack of understanding on the impact of cultural development on beliefs and behaviour. 

We are all shaped by the cultural norms of our families and the society into which we are born. Pakistani immigrants come with all the norms and values of their particular class, culture, and Islamic religion. In Pakistan, they live in extended,  male-dominated family structures, centered on the mosque and local Imam. This lends itself on arrival in Britain to forming inner-city ghettos, and the building of mosques in areas where non Muslims become unwelcome. In effect, they recreate their homeland. Paradoxically, we then encourage them to maintain and perpetuate this way of life through our adoption of multiculturalism. Grooming gangs are a reality. The question is why and how they have become a feature of UK culture. 

To understand the phenomenon, we must look at the culture of their country of origin. The severity and frequency of rape in Pakistan are well documented. The total indifference of the State and its police is clear. Indeed, rape has only recently been recognised as a crime in the Pakistani State. To progress a case in law, however, there must be four witnesses to the crime. Further, the witnesses must all be male and of the Muslim faith. Few complaints are made, and many of the rapes occurring to women  occur whilst in custody and are carried out by the police themselves. Marital rape is not recognised in law. The rape of women from other religions (infidels) is not a criminal offense and is even seen as acceptable by some Islamic Imams.

A study by Human Rights Watch in Pakistan found that a rape occurred every 2 hours and a gang rape every hour. 70-90% of women claim to have suffered domestic violence. In Pakistan, child sexual abuse was found to be widespread in Islamic schools. Child exploitation is rife, epitomised by the forced marriage of children as young as twelve. Wives exist for the sexual gratification of their husbands and cannot possibly be raped by their husbands. Small wonder that in the grooming gangs so far brought to justice in Britain, the perpetrators simply do not understand the revulsion and anger aroused by their bestial behaviour. In Pakistan, they would never have been brought to court. Gang rapes of infidels occur across many countries in Asia. Islam is the common denominator.

 Grooming gangs are not an accident; they are a recurrent feature of Islam, which we imported and encouraged through multiculturalism. The nature of the Pakistani culture and Islamic religion renders proper integration with Western culture and values difficult. In fact, to some Muslims the Western culture is an anathema.  It is certainly not helped by the attitude of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, which is more concerned with Islamophobia than integration. Indeed, the Council's lenient views of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational network with a presence in the UK and an ideology which advocates violence, say much for its inherent anti-British and anti-Western cultural views. Islam creates and protects grooming gangs. Islam prevents meaningful integration. 

Multiculturalism is a complete failure. The creation of ghettos and the perpetuation of quite different cultures living side by side only serve to stoke division. Multiculturalism is the antithesis of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Islam not only turns a blind eye to grooming gangs, it actively encourages the belief that infidels (poor white vulnerable girls) are of no importance. 

 

Article 3

The Cost of Not Knowing the English Language

There is growing pressure to make English proficiency an essential requirement for legal immigrants, both to reduce costs and facilitate proper integration. In fact, failure to do so has had and will continue to have a long-term negative impact on the British economy and culture.

 Using net migration statistics hides the total numbers of migrants entering the country, and it is this figure that impacts on services and costs. In the year up to 28th May 2025,948,000 migrants entered Britain. An ONS estimate at June 2023 showed that 11.4 million non-UK-born residents lived in England and Wales, including 3.4 million EU-born and 8 million non EU born. Nearly 1 million people in the UK cannot speak English.

 Providing free interpreting support is a legal requirement imposed by the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010. There is no such thing as a free service; the taxpayer funds the financial cost of all public services and interpreting is one such service.. The total annual cost to the UK for this provision is difficult to ascertain. But various statistics and assessments show it to be both frighteningly high and growing rapidly each year. 

A report by the TaxPayers' Alliance showed that the cost of interpreting services for the NHS alone in the years (2019-20) and (2021-22) was £113,974,561. However, this was the cost accumulated by the limited number of  NHS Trusts taking part in their survey. An estimate by the Taxpayers' Alliance showed that the cost incurred if every Trust had taken part would be just over £174 million. These costs have risen substantially since the date of the report, along with the increase in the number of migrants, both legal and illegal.

Interpreting provisions are provided in a range of other public services, police, courts, prisons, schools et al.  A Daily Mail investigation found that interpreting support for benefit claimants alone amounted to £27 million since 2019, including support for nearly 1 million callers for DWP Universal Credit. The total cost for interpreting services in the DWP in the year 2023/24 was £6.8 million. 

 Local councils too share the burden; a freedom of information request to Leeds City Council showed their current annual bill for interpreting services is £1.3 million. An estimated total cost of the service across the whole of the public sector excluding the NHS, calculated in 2014, was £140 million. No doubt this is substantially greater some 11 years later.

Interpreting costs are directly related to the number of non-English speakers in the population. Since 2021, 3.6 million non-EU immigrants have entered the UK, together with 577,000 from EU countries. The Census taken in 2021 showed 880,000  immigrants had difficulty speaking English, and 161,000 could not speak the language at all. This number has increased sharply. Of the latter, 3 out of every 5 women could not speak English. The 187,000 illegal immigrants who have crossed the Channel in the same period are not included in the above figures, but clearly exacerbate the problem.

Whilst the huge financial cost raises serious enough concerns, more important issues arise from this language problem. When parties do not share a common language, barriers arise, verbal, non-verbal, written and cultural. Such barriers increase the risk of errors and reduce the impact of service delivery. They prevent meaningful integration by creating a need for people to seek and create their own language-based localities, silos, where they feel more comfortable with their common language. 

But public services have to deal with public interactions regardless of language difficulties. Straightforward liaison and discussion with the public by the police is managed through the forces' own interpreters and EDI staff, albeit at yet another financial cost. For one example, a freedom of information request to West Yorkshire Police showed annual staff and training costs of £ 1.3 million for  EDI posts, some of which are police officers, removed from front-line service.

 Police interaction with the public out on the street is another matter. Addressing confrontation with people who do not fully understand English is both difficult and potentially dangerous. In multicultural areas like Harehills in Leeds, where multiple different languages are spoken in self-contained ghettos living alongside each other, the risk of misunderstanding escalates. The Harehills riots grew from this multicultural mix and the failure of the police and public services to communicate clearly. 

The catalyst was a Social Services visit to a Romanian family to remove their children to care. Objections from the family due to cultural and language misunderstandings caused social services officers to call the police. Language difficulties within and between the cultural silos that make up the Harehills area compounded the difficulties facing the police. Ingrained hostility to the police flared, and fearful of racism charges, the police had to withdraw to a safer distance, allowing the more militant cultural groups to take charge. The ensuing riot made front page news.

Language difficulties in the classroom create barriers to effective education. the most common barrier is when the teacher and student do not share a common language. Children born in the UK to ethnic minority parents suffer communication difficulties less when their parents are multilingual, as they too develop the same language skills from an early age. Migrants entering without a knowledge of the English language bring non-English speaking families with them, and children whose education is rendered difficult. In the 1980s, Ray Honeyford, a headmaster in Bradford, was unfairly sacked after writing an article analysing the difficulties of teaching in multicultural classes with different levels of understanding and the resultant impact on education. An early example of cultural clashes that were to escalate further in degree and frequency.

In practice, most of the schools with large numbers of multicultural classes are located in those inner city areas already described as language-speaking silos. Poverty is a common denominator so that the classes also contain numbers of poor white students living in close proximity to the same schools and so attend the same classes. Ironically, the concentration of effort and resources to deal with the language barriers may also impact on, and be a cause of, the poor educational outcomes of poor white indigenous pupils who get forgotten in the pressure to provide specialist support to ethnic minorities.

We cannot afford the astronomical and ever-rising financial cost. If we are to preserve our British culture, we cannot afford the continuing cultural clashes caused by language barriers and their attendant misunderstandings. Proficiency in the English language must be a prerequisite before granting asylum. The same standards must apply to their families before entry. Legislation needs to be changed to make it the responsibility of the person needing a language interpreter to pay the cost, as is practiced in many European countries. 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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